This paper reveiews the experiential learning and learning-styles literature and applies it to accounting instruction. The authors show that the majority of Sophomore accounting students display a learning style which is ...

This paper presents an analysis of accounting education in Australia and Japan, highlighting the major differences in the two countries. The analysis reveals that accounting education in Australia places emphasis on financial ...

This paper discusses how research methodology can be applied in accounting education studies in order to provide dependable results. Experimentall and expost facto research designs are reviewed. Survey research, a popular ...

The present study extended the findings of a previous study that honours programmes provide substantial benefits to faculty academics, students and professional accounting recruiters. Seventy-seven accounting recruiters, ...

A background to the adoption of computing in accounting education is discussed. There has been considerable pressure by the accounting profession for information technology to be taught in tertiary accounting courses. While ...

Academic and professional accountancy bodies in many countries, including Australia, New Zealand and the USA, have recognized the importance of accounting information systems to accountancy programmes. This study examines ...

There is a commonly held belief in higher education that in order to be a good teacher it is necessary to be an active researcher. There is little evidence to support this belief, and none that relates directly to accounting. ...

A wave of discussion involving ethics and accounting education has recently taken place. However, before accounting educators can design curricula with the most positive impact on the moral development of accounting students, ...

Individual differences among humans are apparent in many environments and situations. Educators should be concerned about whether such differences are systematic to such an extent that they significantly affect the ...

Brigham Young University (BYU) received a grant from the Accounting Education Change Commission in 1990. BYU's approach to innovative accounting education makes a useful contribution to accounting education as a result of ...

A dynamic social and technological environment is changing the way accounting data is accumulated and accounting information is presented. A need in the accounting education curriculum is thus the understanding of the ...

In the context of the massive expansion of the knowledge base facing all fields of professional activity, instructional science (which embraces the use of a knowledge-engineering approach to curriculum design) could well ...

This study provides further evidence on the influence of cognitive style on students' problem-solving skills in the presence of ambiguous information. To do this, the performances of 47 accounting students on ten ambiguous ...

Through a survey of the membership of the Artificial Intelligence/Expert Systems (AI/ES) section of the American Accounting Association, this study examines the opinions of a subset of accounting educators about the inclusion ...

This study examines the ethical behaviour of accounting students. In contrast to most prior studies which have examined perceptions of accounting students, this study investigates the action of accounting students with ...

This paper reviews the literature concerning the Accounting Education Change commission(AECC)
and the most recent attempts to create a climate of change within accounting education in the United States.The background ...

The potential uses of expert systems make them as exciting as, if not more promising than, spreadsheet applications (Franciosa, 1990). Expert systems are computer programmes that emulate the thinking processes of human ...